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WHO THE STIMULUS BILL HAS REALLY HELPED

Posted by Jax Hawk on Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:14:35 PM

WHO THE STIMULUS CASH HAS REALLY HELPED!

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” —Ronald Reagan

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months ? and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time in pay and hiring during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available.

When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.

The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The primary cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules.

“There’s no way to justify this to the American people. It’s ridiculous,” says Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a first-term lawmaker who is on the House’s federal workforce subcommittee.

Jessica Klement, government affairs director for the Federal Managers Association, says the federal workforce is highly paid because the government employs skilled people such as scientists, physicians and lawyers. She says federal employees make 26% less than private workers for comparable jobs.
For Obama and his comrades, this isn’t about creating jobs, or they wouldn’t be hoarding so much of the “stimulus” money for purposes of “buying” the upcoming national elections. It isn’t about getting everyone health insurance. It’s about leveling the economic playing field by lowering the common denominator and spreading the misery. It’s about evening the score. It’s about power, i.e., who makes the decisions over how our money is to be spent.

Obama Democrats believe that they know better than we do how our money ought to be spent and that they have a superior moral right to our money. They might even recognize that supply side economics works — just as they know capital gains tax reductions generate more revenues. But to them, the free market isn’t fair because winners and losers are determined, not by the government, but by other factors, including people’s raw efforts. They believe that economic “fairness” — or “economic justice,” a good old Jane Fonda/Tom Hayden/Marxist phrase — should be dictated from the top down by government officials and bureaucrats.

As David Limbaugh so aptly said it: “For Obama and his comrades, this isn’t about creating jobs, or they wouldn’t be hoarding so much of the “stimulus” money for purposes of “buying” the upcoming national elections. It isn’t about getting everyone health insurance. It’s about leveling the economic playing field by lowering the common denominator and spreading the misery. It’s about evening the score. It’s about power, i.e., who makes the decisions over how our money is to be spent.

Obama Democrats believe that they know better than we do how our money ought to be spent and that they have a superior moral right to our money. They might even recognize that supply side economics works — just as they know capital gains tax reductions generate more revenues. But to them, the free market isn’t fair because winners and losers are determined, not by the government, but by other factors, including people’s raw efforts. They believe that economic “fairness” — or “economic justice,” a good old Jane Fonda/Tom Hayden/Marxist phrase — should be dictated from the top down by government officials and bureaucrats.

So the answer to the unemployment crisis is to put millions on the government payroll instead of stimulating the private free enterprise system.This promotes the socialization of America, and w must stop him by regaining power in 2010!

 

 

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AND NOW CONGRESS WANTS A SECOND SPENDULUS!

Posted by Jax Hawk on Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:00:00 AM

 

 





Despite the fact that the highly touted stimulus spending has not reduced the unemployment rate, nor has it limited it to 8.5% as Obama predicted.With an unemployment rate of over 10% and climing the Democrat controled Congress is proposing another round of stimulus spending.

The "royalty in Washington apparently are either out of touch with reality or simply do not care what those who put them in the priviledgrd position by voting for them.
Congress has appropriated so much money that the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that Obama’s spending plan would leave a deficit of $672 billion by the end of 2013. Explaining the differences between his projections and CBO’s, Obama said his administration projects a higher growth rate.

Well he is being overly optimistic or flat out lying, as most sane economists predict a growth rate of less than 2%! It makes sense when you consider the negative affect that his Cap and Trade Bill
will have.
It is also important to understand that “cutting the deficit in half” is a deceit for the fact that it means he’ll still be running up a record deficit of over 600 billion a year. That is not progress in deficit reduction or “fiscally responsible” government. But it sounds good when thrown out there in a sound bite. Maybe this will help make my point:

Both the most “pessimistic” and his own projections see huge deficits projected well into the future, and as many economists have said, unsustainable deficits.

So let’s get a few facts straight concerning spending and deficits before Obama took over as president and after. The then and now!
Obama has been trying to pass himself off as a fiscally conservative leader, but his true tax-and-spend identity is starting to show through as he claims that a government “rescue” of the economy (as if any such thing were even possible) is more important than budget deficits or the federal debt.In simple terms obama believes(or at least wants us to believe)that spending money that is worthless, because it exceedes the GNP, will get us out of the economic mess we are in!

President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama has added another $1 trillion.

President Bush began a string of expensive financial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course at breakneck speed.

China, the biggest overseas holder of U.S. Treasuries, trimmed its holdings of government notes and bonds by $4.4 billion to $763.5 billion in April. Premier Wen Jiabao said in March that he was “worried” the dollar would weaken as U.S. President Barack Obama sells record amounts of debt to fund his $787 billion economic stimulus plan.

“The objective is to develop a substitute for the dollar as the world’s reserve currency,” said Tim Condon, Singapore- based head of Asia research at ING Groep NV, part of the largest Dutch financial-services group. “That will reduce the ability of the U.S. government to finance deficits with impunity.”

Even Germany has said at the G8 summit, that we should cut back on spending!

Government isn’t the solution, it’s the problem! Ronald Reagan
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Your Tax Money Will Fund Anarcy in Some USA Cities!

Posted by Jax Hawk on Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:44:35 AM

 





The House Democrats’ trillion dollar spending bill also includes $1 billion for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. CDBG funds are given by the federal government to state and local governments which often contract with nonprofits for services related to the purpose of the grant.

ACORN knows how to secure CDBG funds. Audit reports filed by ACORN’s headquarters with the Office of Management and Budget show that ACORN spent $1,588,599 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program funds from FY 2003 through FY 2007. It is not clear from these records when or from what source the funds were awarded to ACORN. It is also not clear whether ACORN chapters or affiliates have received CDBG grants on their own.


House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) repeatedly urged President George W. Bush and other federal officials to withhold taxpayer funds from ACORN, including $17.2 million in federal grants awarded in December 2008 after numerous allegations of wrongdoing in connection with ACORN’s election activities were reported by the news media.


Leader Boehner also released a study of federal records in October 2008 listing tens of millions in federal grants received by ACORN. A new updated and more expansive study reveals that ACORN has actually received millions more than first thought. A review of the Federal Register and news releases issued by federal agencies showed that ACORN was awarded more than $53 million in taxpayer dollars. This amount does not reflect the millions more ACORN has received in federal block grant funds awarded to state and local agencies which passed them on to ACORN.
And just what will ACORN do with this money?
Acorn announced that they are going to combat house foreclosures by using "civil disobedience".Starting tomorrow, Feb.19,2009 Acorn will send team to foreclosed homes to chain themselves to the building, padlock doors and perform other forms of illegal behavior to combat home foreclosures. They call their teams "Home Savers", but I think their action is nothing but anarchy, and it reminds me of what happened on Krystal Nacht in Munich and what happened in Moscow in 1917!

ACORN is targeting the following cities: Tucson, Ariz.; Oakland, Calif.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Contra Costa County, Calif.; Orlando, Fla.; Baltimore, Md.; New York, N.Y.; Houston, Texas; San Mateo County, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; Bridgeport, Conn.; Wilmington, Del.; Broward County, Fla.; Boston, Mass.; Flint, Mich.; Detroit, Mich.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Raleigh, N.C.; Durham, N.C.; Albany, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Dallas, Texas. If you live in any of these cities alert your police force, and make sure they keep order!

ACORN has waited three decades for this moment in the sun. And as Obama promised ACORN members at a forum in December 2007, "We're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're gonna be having meetings all across the country … so that you have input into the agenda." The moment is nigh. Prepare for lawlessness.

Late minute news! President Obama has announced that he will get Congress to "print" $75 billion dollars to assist 3 million homeowners that have defaulted on their mortgage payments. These are people who got a mortgage because of a Federal law administered by Barney Frank, Congressman from New York, that forced mortgage companies to lend to people who did not qualify for a mortgage based upon their income. Most of these are minority home owners, who had neither the means nor the inclination to pay the mortgage. What makes the "Savior" think they will pay the reduced mortgage payments.
Obama blamed the Banks for their responsibility for the mortgage mess, but he convieniently forgot that government dictates forced the banks and mortgages companies to make these bad loans!

Unfortunately we appear to have a president that hates the free enterprise system and is dedicated to government control over banks and financial industries whom he says do "predatory lending", along with the auto industry and only God knows what else!
Remember,Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them...Ronald Reagan
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AN ALERT TO ALL ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THOSE WITH DISABILITIES

Posted by Jax Hawk on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:42:18 AM

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

 



There are many reasons to fear and oppose the so called STIMULUS Bill. Such things as millions of dollars for ACORN,and hunderds of "ear marks" for political purposes. Then there is the prospect that this bill will contribute to the National debt that is already controlled( they hold our bonds) by foreign Countries like Japan and Communist China, and will further devalue our dollar in a spiraling free fall.

But the thing that should strike fear and concern in the hearts of any senior citizen or handicapped person is a little known provision inserted into the "spendulus" bill that would create a Super Board of bureaucrats who would determine when services should be withheld to patients that have been recommended by the patients doctor.

In plain English, this board could withhold services such as angioplasty for persons over 70 years of age, not because it is not an effective treatment, but because it saves money and could be a waste on an elderly person.
This Bill applies to every person in the USA , and it will be electronically monitored to determine if the care prescribed by your doctor is appropriate for cost savings in Federal health care!

The following is so important that I have taken the liberty of copying it entirely from the Patriot Post that describes the formation of this "Rationing Board".
In England, where the concept has been used for years. An elderly person who has macular degeneration( the most common cause of blindness in people over age 65) is denied surgery until they go blind in one eye!
Canada is another Country that has rationing of medical care, and the wait for surgical procedures can be as long as eighteen months. That is why so many Canadians come to the USA for medical care!

""On page 151 of this legislative pork-fest [the 'stimulus' bill] is one of the clandestine nuggets of social policy manipulation that are peppered throughout the bill. Section 9201 of the stimulus package establishes the 'Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research.'

This body, which would be made up of federal bureaucrats will 'coordinate the conduct or support of comparative effectiveness and related health services research.' Sounds benign enough, but the man behind the Coordinating Council, Health and Human Services Secretary-designate [since withdrawn] (and tax cheat) Tom Daschle, was kind enough to explain the goal of this organization. It is to cut health care costs by preventing Americans from getting treatments that the government decides don't meet their standards for cost effectiveness. In his 2008 book on health care, he explained that such a council would, 'lower overall spending by determining which medicines, treatments and procedures are most effective-and identifying those that do not justify their high price tags.'

Once a panel of government experts decides what is and what is not cost-effective by their definition, the government will stop paying for treatments, medicines, therapies or devices that fall into the latter category. ... Mind you, they are not simply looking to exclude treatments that don't work, but to exclude treatments that are effective, but whose cost, in their opinion, does not justify their use. The 2006 census showed that over 12 percent of Americans are now senior citizens, and do we want government boards to decide whether they live or die, instead of their doctor! Ever since abortion became a "right" via the unsupreme Court, we have been moving towards euthanasia for the elderly, and if this provision is not stripped out of the stimulus Bill. The government will have the decision not your doctor, who lives and who dies depending on cost savings. God help US!

You, the patient, and your physician don't get a vote. This would make the federal government the single most important decision-maker regarding health care for every patient in America." --public affairs consultant Douglas O'Brien
Bold letters added by me for emphasis!

Remember that census statistics show that, "About one in five U.S. residents - 19 percent - reported some level of disability in 2005, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released today. But, more than one out of three of all the disabled in the U.S. are senior citizens, age 65 or older". USA census bureau

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